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Eric Smith is a former Macomb County Prosecutor and convicted criminal. [2] He resigned on March 30, 2020, after criminal charges were filed against him. [3]Smith had also gained national notoriety in 2007 due to the Tara Grant murder case, which Smith personally prosecuted.
An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
In October 2017, Tom Leonard announced his campaign to be Michigan's next attorney general. [74] Leonard would be the first attorney general to have previous experience working in the office. [75] Leonard named fighting violent crime, prosecuting sexual predators and putting a stop to the opioid epidemic as his top priorities. [76]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a Democratic state lawmaker are calling for more state oversight into homeschooling following recent reports of child abuse where officials say homeschool ...
Nessel had referred the case of Michigan’s 16 electors to the Justice Department, but the nonprofit news service Bridge Michigan reported this year that she was reopening her investigation ...
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...
Carlos Torres, 40, was convicted in May 2022 by a Lenawee County Circuit Court jury of sexually abusing a girl who was 11 or 12 when the abuse began.
The West publication is Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (MCLA); the LexisNexis version is the Michigan Compiled Laws Service (MCLS). Until the year 2000, an alternate codification known as the Michigan Statutes Annotated (MSA), which differed from the MCL in both its organization and numbering system, was also in use. Until the discontinuation ...